Kainser posted:

Why would Muscowy do this?

ibntumart posted:

My Arabic is rusty, but I have been trying to recapture it, so I'll help out if you still want assistance. Though PMs might work better, given that I don't know when I'll be able to do IRC today.

Wiz posted:

Wiz posted:

Afterwards, some Azeri soldiers would claim that Allah sent an army of angels to aid Kasim, while others swore that they saw Khalid ibn al-Walid riding at the forefront of the Azeri army holding the banner of Jihad. Which of these stories is true cannot be known, but what everyone agrees on is that the Armenian army collapsed utterly upon the charge of the Azeri cavalry, turning the battle into a rout. Thousands of Armenians were slain, and thousands more captured and sold into slavery.


Once again, Kasim defeats them on the field of battle, but even as the Armenians retreat, tragedy strikes.

Wiz posted:

They are defeated, but at a very high cost. Sieges and battles have bled Azerbaijan's manpower dry, and there are no more men to replace the fallen.


The Armenians also make a sally, attacking Ertan in Trapezus and winning a minor victory.

Kainser posted:

e; Seriously though, looking good.

Wiz posted:

I'll give you a brief outline.

I've designated 25 different regions in the world as colonization targets, these regions are for example Indonesia, the Caribbean, the Thirteen Colonies, Atlantic Ocean Islands and so on.

An AI country that is a colonizer and lacks a colonization target will get an event that picks one of the 25 regions that they have discovered and have range to as their colonization target. What this means is that the event feeds the AI instructions to colonize the region via the add_ai_strategy command.

The AI will continue to focus mainly on this region for an average of 50 years, or until the entire region is colonized. After they finish with a region, their priorities for colonizing that region get removed and eventually another event fires picking a new target for them.

The chances of a country getting a particular target is weighted based on their culture. For example, Iberian culture countries are much more likely to get South American regions as their colonization target than North American ones. They're also weighted based on the general desirability and location of targets, so Brazil will usually be picked before the Andes, and so on.

Wiz posted:

It's not so much as not wanting to share as it simply being a lot of info to type out. Here is the event file if you want to dig into it.

steinrokkan posted:

Yeah, I get what you are trying to say - getting the mil tradition idea would have been better, right? But I'm pretty sure the general assumption amongst the voters (includining me) was we wouldn't actually fight their main forces since the Armenians would be locked in a fight with the Russians and we would just wipe the floor with our manpower sponge. And ultimately, that guess was right.

Vander posted:

I've seen some hints that, to colonize, you have to have a certain amount of coastal provences. What is that amount needed?

Wiz posted:

4 ports and in our case, 16 naval tech, which is a fair bit away.

steinrokkan posted:

Even if we were beyond the tech threshold, would there be any colonies within our range? I mean, eastern Africa is obscenely far away since the game calculates naval routes, right?

Wiz posted:

No, we'd have basically no colonial range since we lack naval NIs, and our naval tech is gonna continue to be crap because of Lack of Naval Interest.

In short, we're not gonna colonize.

Dibujante posted:

Maybe if there's a scramble for Africa in 1890...

Munin posted:

Btw, to allow a bit of colonising by OPMs and semi-lanlocked nations is it possible to limit the number of colonies a country with less than 4 ports can maintain at any one time?

If they could have only one active colony at any one time it would allow them to get the odd colonial toehold whilst still allowing the major colonisers to dominate.

Kainser posted:

I just want Iceland and Friesland to colonize :smallcountries:

How big is Frieslands capital? There is so much trade going through there that I'd imagine it being quite the metropolis.

Kainser posted:

e; Any chance that Iceland won't spend the entire LP not doing anything and not being invaded at any point?

Wiz posted:

Groningen is 187k

Contingency Plan posted:

I think Armenia is a paper tiger and not nearly as strong as they look.

i81icu812 posted:

Hey, did Kabul form Mughal? Finally?

Wiz posted:

It's Iceland. What do you honestly expect them to do?

I can give them a decision to colonize Greenland if it'll make you happy.

Kanthulhu posted:

That would make me happy. I mean, why wouldn't they want to colonize Greenland? That's about the only thing they can do.

Wiz posted:

It's Iceland. What do you honestly expect them to do?

I can give them a decision to colonize Greenland if it'll make you happy.

Kainser posted:

It's mainly that I think really static areas of the map (like Iceland ends up being 90% of the time) are pretty boring. It makes total sense though obviously what with Iceland being really isolated and there not being any particular reason to own the place beyond prestige. And Iceland would for obvious reasons (really small population even for a 2 province minor) not be much of an expanding power.

Maybe add a mission for Norway to conquer Iceland which they can get if they have more than X provinces in North America or something? That could be something for Victoria 2 with it's imperialism anyway if Norway retains an empire.